Editorial As the United Nations General Assembly opened last week, world leaders including President Duterte pointed to the ever-increasing risks brought on by the climate change crisis, even as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. Their collective concern foreshadows the agenda of COP26, the UN...
Editorial A video posted online showed a female OFW at the Qatar airport saying they were being instructed to throw away their face shields. A passenger on a Tokyo flight onboard a Japanese airline noting the non-mandatory wearing of a face shield. A Pinoy student in Beijing wondering why there’s...
Editorial When President Duterte finally approved a pilot program for limited in-person classes for the first time since the pandemic disrupted learning, it came on the heels of the Philippines being one of the last countries to do so. In recent weeks, concerns were raised as blended learning was...
Editorial When President Ferdinand E. Marcos issued Presidential Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire Philippines under martial law effective September 21, 1972, the country had a population of 37.9 million. Out of the present population of 111.3 million, 73.4 million or two out of every...
Editorial A witness who called in sick when it was his time to testify. A government official who feigned ignorance when a question was asked. A supplier who suddenly required a language interpreter just to speak. A businessman who was swept with amnesia when his overpriced government transaction...
EDITORIAL As adults all over the country continue to be vaccinated, with some cities already achieving a certain level of herd protection, the government has announced that it may start vaccinating children and teens as early as October. The priority would be those with comorbidities. This...
Editorial After 26 years, the Supreme Court (SC) now has a Muslim magistrate -- Associate Justice Japaar B. Dimaampao, a Maranao from the Bangsamoro Region and the first lawyer-certified public accountant appointed to the High Court. The first Muslim magistrate was the late Associate Justice...
Editorial Out of 2.248 million cases of COVID-19 infection, 35,307 deaths have been recorded in the Philippines as of Sept. 13, 2021 or a mortality rate of 1.57 percent. This is lower than the global record: 4.55 million deaths out of 219 million cases, or 2 percent. Latest figures also show that...
Editorial Each new school year brings with it a different set of hopes, goals -- and in these tumultuous times -- challenges that were unheard of in past school years. This academic year, like last year, is starting in a peak of a pandemic, which has forced the Department of Education (DepEd) to...
Editorial COVID-19 is not just a continuing national health emergency. It has also spawned a severe economic recession that has set back the country’s growth trajectory for the second consecutive year. On the same day that the Philippine Statistics Authority announced the lowest rate of...
Editorial It was more than a year ago since the Duterte Administration pronounced for the first time that it wants to gain more out of the mining industry, something that was highly improbable then, until Executive Order (EO) 130 was issued six months ago. It turns out that the government is...
Editorial Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and commercial airline flights in the United States that killed 2,996 people, Filipinos join the rest of the world in reflecting on the continuing threats posed by terrorism. In July last year, Congress passed...
